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February 2009

February 22, 2009

A couple of years ago, my mom and I went to the rodeo when it came to town. I hadn't been to a rodeo in YEARS!!! I actually thing the last one I saw was "Frontier Days" in Cheyenne, Wyoming...1976! This one was fun...not too big, but a good sampling of rodeo events. Of course, the most excting part was the bull riding! Those animals are huge, and the cowboys are cute, too! But I think the worst part was the calf roping. I hated it! Those poor little calves get chased, jumped on, slammed to the ground and tied up. One cowboy pulled a little leg out of it's socket and they had to take the calf off the ring on a stretcher. I didnt' like it at all. Sort of put a damper on the event. But being the scrapper that I am...I still had to scrap the pictures!

I used mostly CTMH materials...you know me, an "equal opportunity scrapper"...I throw in all kinds of embellishments regardless of who they're from. I finally got to use my Sarsparilla paper from CTMH. I bought it just for these pictures. Here are the layouts I came up with:

(remember...click on the pictures to enlarge for detail)

I'm off to see what kind of scrappy trouble I can get into next! Have a great day, and thanks for visiting.

February 21, 2009

It seems like the most challenging thing for me lately, is finding time to create. I keep saying that I'm going to set aside more time for ME, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way. BUT...thanks to my friend Julie, I three days and two nights at an awesome scrappin' bed and breakfast. A group of five ladies got together and left our cares behind. Between all the laughter and talking, I managed to get a few new layouts done. It was so nice to be away from home (even if it was only an hour away.) The food was spectacular, the accomodations were great, and the cropping room was wonderful. Talk about being pampered!

Here are some of the layouts I completed. The pictures are from the summer after I finished student teaching. I ran a summer day camp for the school, and we took a field trip to Sauder Farm & Village...kind of like a smaller version of Greenfield Village. I used CTMH materials for the most part...a few "contraband" items snuck their way in though. The paper is "Notebook" and the first two pages of layouts are from the CTMH Notebook Workshop-on-the-Go. I didn't have the MyStickease (left it at home by mistake) but "made do" with some wonderful MyAcrylix stamp sets I had with me.

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You can create your own Workshop-on-the-Go! Gather together a group of friends and I'll bring everything to you...the paper, stamps, stickers, embellishments...you provide the photos! You'll get step-by-step directions and cutting guides for making the above two pages, as well as two other layouts and cards.

One of the great things I love about these workshops is that all of the layouts are professionally designed and color coordinated. You get all the paper and embellishments necessary to complete a total of six 12"x12" pages, and you're still left with plenty of extra paper so you can create lots of additional cards and layouts of your own!

Here are some of the additional pages I created using my Notebook paper pack (Click to enlarge for detail):